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TRIBECA THEN AND NOW: THE UNKNOWNS (PART 4)
Many of Jane Freeman’s photos from the 1980s and 1990s were taken at locations I’ve been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in. (P.S. I suspect the above shot is Staple Street.)
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SEEN & HEARD
••• 10/18: North End Grill’s last day. Plus: Blue Bottle’s Hudson Square café is open; Sola Lab opens next week; first rendering for the new building at 77 Charlton; a hearing about property tax increases.
••• 10/19: Wisefish Poké has soft-opened. Plus: Big Gay Ice Cream’s permanent Seaport District shop; Hitchcock-inspired window installations; another look at the new building at Washington and Desbrosses; after-school portraits.
••• 10/20: Another Japanese restaurant is opening here. Plus: Funky lighting at 56 Leonard; fancy Japanese barbershop in Soho; new bike pod in FiDi; “Little Shop of Horrors” screening and Q&A with director Frank Oz.
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IN THE NEWS
••• 10/18: History of a Greenwich Street building. Plus: The former Ritz-Carlton hotel was sold; Stephen Mueller’s “funny, radiant, sexy, quasi-abstractions” (above); Todd Solondz’s play at the Flea.
••• 10/19: Hollywood director’s Tribeca penthouse (with electronic ping-pong scoreboard). Plus: “Fearless Girl” sculpture to go to Europe for a while; largest Royal Navy ship is in town; “Fiddler on the Roof” extended one last time.
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WHERE IN TRIBECA…?
Congratulations to Sonia Stock for correctly identifying last week’s “Where in Tribeca…?” Discover the answer for yourself.
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